PRESERVING CZECH AND SLOVAK CULTURE IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1891
BBLA member organizations host some of the best events in the city—concerts, festivals, lectures, and film screenings—at Manhattan’s Bohemian National Hall.
The Dvorak Room at the Bohemian National Hall welcomes in-person visits once again as part of Open House New York Weekend – an unparalleled citywide cultural event that showcases hundreds of NYC’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces and places, many not usually open to the public.
Six ultrarunner friends decided to revive an important World War II story and ran the authentic 170 km long journey – from Oswiecim, Poland, to Zilina, Slovakia – of an escape of two Slovakian Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler.
Author Daniela Grollova Spenser will be in conversation with Dan La Botz about her new book – a deeply personal yet historically grounded account of Czechoslovakia from the 1930s to the 1990s.
